‘PUGNA GEMBLACENSIS SEU BOUEENSIS IO AUSTRIACO GOBERNATORE.1578.’

– Original antique print showing the battle of Gembloers/Gembloux in Belgium between the Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria, Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, and a rebel army composed of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French, and Walloon soldiers under Antoine de Goignies, during the Eighty Years’ War. Scene from the Eighty Years’ War.

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Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 43 x 31.8 cm (16.93 x 12.52 inch). Image size: 40.6 x 28.7 cm. (15.98 x 11.3 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Original fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BATTLE-GEMBLOERS-GEMBLOUX-BELGIUM-EIGHTY YEARS’ WAR | PCO-E26-17

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This rare antique print originates from: ‘Romani e Societate Iesv De bello Belgico.’, published by Franciscus Corbeletti in Rome 1640.

Reference: Reference: Hollstein Dutch 16, FMH 807-a.

Biography engraver: Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 – Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Biography artist: Famiano Strada (1572 ? 6 September 1649) was an Italian Jesuit and historian of wars in the low countries (Belgium and Netherlands) during the early part of the Eighty Years’ War, starting with the abdication of Charles V in 1556 to the capture of Rheinsberg in 30 January 1590.